IIOJK people facing systematic HR violations by India since decades: Shameem Shawl.

ISLAMABAD -- Kashmiri representative, Shameem Shawl has welcomed the statement made by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in different parts of the world.

According to reporter, Shameem Shawl in her statement read in the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council said the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir thank the OHCHR for its statement on the gross human rights situation in the occupied territory.

The people of Kashmir have been facing systematic grave human rights violations and abuses by India for decades.

The enforced disappearance of a Kashmiri youth in Kunan-Poshpora, Abdul Rashid Dar whose mutilated dead body was recovered from the Zurhama forests after about 3 months of his arrest is a shameful and brutal act of Indian forces.

He is among the thousands who have disappeared in IOJK without a trace in the past 30 years.

Abdul Rashid Dar is perhaps the first disappeared person whose body has been found, and his family is lucky that they were able to perform his last rituals.

The denial of basic human rights, property rights, economic rights, employment rights and rights to live in their homes, own property, safeguard their inherited...

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